| Everybody got the right to speak their mind | |
| So don't shoot me for saying mine | |
| Everybody talking about racial equality | |
| 'cos everybody's equal in the good lord's eyes | |
| But if i told you that god was black | |
| What would you think of that | |
| I bet you wouldn't believe it | |
| There's a self made prophet living right next to me | |
| He said the black messiah's gonna come and set the whole world free | |
| He looked at me with his evil eye and prophesied | |
| And he really believed it | |
| He said a black messiah is gonna set the world on fire | |
| And he's no liar, 'cos he has truly heard the word | |
| Everybody talking about racial equality | |
| But i'm the only honky living on an all black street | |
| They knock me down 'cos they brown and i white | |
| Everybody got the right to speak their mind | |
| So don't shoot me for saying mine | |
| Everyobody talking about racial equality | |
| You hear everybody talking about equal rights | |
| But white's white, black's black and that's that | |
| And that's the way you should leave it | |
| Don't want no black messiah to come and set the world on fire | |
| A black messiah is gonna come and rule the world | |
| Everybody got to show a little give and take | |
| Everybody got to live with a little less hate | |
| Everybody gotta work it out, we gotta sort it out | |
| Everbody got the right to speak their mind | |
| So don't shoot me for saying mine |